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Classrooms & Covid; Musk’s & Bezos’s Billions; Pandemic Pivots

Squawk Pod

CNBC

Business News, News, Investing, Business

4.2543 Ratings

🗓️ 21 July 2020

⏱️ 29 minutes

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Summary

Epidemiologist and Dean of the Harvard T. H. Chan School of Public Health Michelle Williams suggests corporations may be the key to stemming Covid’s spread and ensuring a safe fall semester for students and teachers. Bruce Feiler, author of “Life Is in the Transitions: Mastering Change at Any Age,” offers insight on navigating the personal and professional changes prompted by the coronavirus pandemic. Plus, Elon Musk and Jeff Bezos are each over $10 billion wealthier today than they were yesterday, and the NFL is shelling out $75 million for daily Covid testing during practice camps.

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0:00.0

This is Squawk Pod. I'm C. NBC producer Katie Kramer today on our podcast.

0:06.3

Who's living large in this market? How about Elon Musk and Jeff Bezos, whose

0:10.8

personal wealth yesterday alone grew grew by almost $20 billion.

0:15.4

But money does not make you happy.

0:17.2

Andrew, we know this, do we not?

0:19.6

Epidemiologist and Dean of the Harvard Chan School of Public Health on the role schools and

0:24.4

corporations can play in a global recovery. The carnage that we saw happen at

0:29.8

the outset of this pandemic, the economic and clinical carnage can be prevented.

0:37.0

And thriving in a time of change, author Bruce Filer on how to adapt.

0:42.0

We are in what I call a life quake, which is a massive author Bruce Filer on how to adapt.

0:42.6

We are in what I call a life quake, which is a massive period of change that has aftershocks for years.

0:48.6

Those stories plus the NFL's 75 million dollar testing plan and the company's talking one way but paying another.

0:57.0

It's Tuesday, July 21st, 2020, Squawk Pot begins right now. Good morning and welcome to Squawk

1:03.9

begins right here on cnephe i'm under a rock soork and along with joe kernan and

1:07.8

Melissa Lee beck he's off today let's talk about that Amazon

1:12.4

doesn't seem like they're so dependent on whether things open.

1:17.7

This has been the big play for things being closed, but Amazon's going to postpone Prime

1:22.2

Day, which I don't really understand because it's two days.

1:27.0

The two-day summer sales event is typically held in mid-July.

1:30.0

The company hasn't set a date, but earlier this month it told third-party sellers to use the week of October 5th as a placeholder date for promotions.

1:39.0

And Coupons, Amazon was one of the leaders of yesterday's tech rally after Goldman Sachs and analysts there hiked

1:43.6

this price target to $3,800 a share of the stock rose nearly 8%, bringing the market

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